BISHOP'S HOUSE

BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202102
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: BISHOP'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL

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Date:: 2001-01-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202102
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: BISHOP'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 57440 72929

Details

BRISTOL

ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton 901-1/14/776 (North West side) 08/01/59 Bishop's House

GV II*

House. Dated 1711. Possibly by John Strachan. Limestone ashlar, render, gable stacks and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 7-window range. A good symmetrical front with a 2-window left-hand wing; the central 1-window entrance section is banded and broken forward, banded outer pilasters, to a frieze and cornice, with a parapet with balustraded sections to the windows and urns on the corners. The doorway has fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and segmental dated pediment, rectangular fanlight and 6-panel door. The window above has a pediment, keyed architraves and segmental heads, flat to the left-hand section, to 6/6-pane sashes. Tooled Pennant ground-floor quoin strip to the left-hand corner. INTERIOR: good joinery, large central entrance stair hall divided by a segmental arch with fluted pilasters, with half panelling, to a rear open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, ramped moulded rail and a wide curtail; fully-panelled right-hand front room has a marble fire surround; panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: the first of an important group of early and mid C18 houses built in Clifton. Attribution on stylistic grounds. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 14; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 123).

Listing NGR: ST5743972931

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 379235
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 123
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 14

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.